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hunters were circling the zambian airfields under orders to shoot down any fighter that attempted to take off. the zambians obeyed all of green leader's instructions, made no attempt to resist and temporarily halted civil air traffic. using rufunsa airstrip in eastern zambia as a forward base, the rhodesian military suffered only minor casualties during the three @ - @ day operation, and afterwards claimed to have killed over 1 @, @ 500 zipra personnel, as well as some cuban instructors. historians paul moorcraft and peter mclaughlin write that this exaggerated considerably the actual number of guerrillas killed, as most of nkomo's army, then